Joe Thomas Quotes

When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But history can be exciting, intellectually rigorous, and fun.

I've always been fascinated by history.

I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and to do that for work is really exciting.

I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.

I like historical things; I like researching things.

The public, as opposed to the profession, has little interest. Historiography—the study of history and its processes—is dull stuff.

I read a lot of history for fun.

My favorite subject is history. It's interesting.

I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.

When I was really young, I wanted to be a history teacher because I was obsessed with the past.

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

I think you can learn from history.

When I was a kid, I loved history because history to me was a big story.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

I read more history books than anything else.

I studied psychology at university.

History is clarified experience.

When I was a kid, I thought history was the most boring subject of all. I shouldn't blame my teachers; I should blame me, but I'll blame them.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.

History is more interesting than most people think.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.